What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world?
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant thoughtful and
concise analysis of kindness in history in life and in the modern world. Suggesting that acts
of kindness occur when we are at our most open and honest they ask why it is that our faith in
kindness has been shaken - and why we are all too ready to believe that antagonism has taken
its place.
